Originally Posted by
shadowfox
More like the fights being drawn out. My nephew was watching it the one day ... and people were fighting (or rather, busy explaining to his enemy why he was about to die horribly). Walked past the TV a week later, and I see the same people fighting. When I asked him about it, it turns out it was the same fight. I was like "Holy crap, do they ever stop talking and throw an actual punch?"
Turns out I missed that episode's punch by a minute or so.
It's one of the reasons I'm not terribly fond of Naruto and Bleach either, despite having watched both. They spend to much time talking about what they're doing, what they're going to do, why their opponent's previous attack didn't end the fight, and then, of course, explaining why their next attack is going to make their opponent die horribly - like, seriously - stop mouthing off and deck the bloke already. And then, surprise surprise, their opponent doesn't die horribly, and they take the cue and start the cycle again in the opposite direction.
And this goes on for 3 or 4 episodes, and then in the final episode a mosquito sneezes and someone is distracted at a critical moment, and despite resisting attacks that took out the local mountain range, someone is knocked out by the weakest attack on the planet.
